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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler today delivered the following remarks, as prepared, during a markup of the American Music Fairness Act (H.R. 4130)...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter signed by 10 other Members of Congress from California to the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) outlining needed improvements...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today continued his investigation of Big Pharma’s tax practices with a final request to Amgen for voluntary compliance in providing information about efforts to avoid billions in taxes through profit-shifting to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the State Department’s decision to make changes to its ‘China House’ plan based on feedback the senator provided:
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jim Risch today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide detailed information to Congress about the U.S. assistance provided in response to Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression administered by the State Department and USAID.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act, legislation to provide women the support they need to access reproductive health services...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $186 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to support its Wastewater Compliance and Sustainability Project. With this WIFIA loan, EPA is helping the City of Chattanooga improve its wastewater system’s energy efficiency and resilience to extreme weather while saving ratepayers millions of dollars.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement upon the release of Brittney Griner, an American WBNA player wrongfully imprisoned in Russia since February of this year.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it approved the largest multiemployer pension bailout in history...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: A bicameral comment letter, spearheaded in the House by Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), was sent yesterday to National Labor Relations Board (“the Board" or NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran to oppose the Biden administration’s proposed joint employer rule which would jeopardize businesses across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on the Senate floor to seek unanimous consent on a time agreement to pass their Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) this Congress to protect pregnant workers and ensure they have the basic workplace accommodations they need to have healthy pregnancies.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ Washington Commanders report...
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Cory ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Vernal, Utah -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized an air quality plan, called a Federal Implementation Plan, which will require enforceable controls on the emissions of air pollutants from new, modified, and existing oil and natural gas facilities on Indian country lands within ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide detailed information to Congress about the U.S. assistance provided in response to Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression administered by the State Department and USAID.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing the findings of his two-year investigation into the federal government’s initial response to COVID-19 from December 2019 through March 2020, as...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need for Congress to take action on pandemic preparedness. She urged her colleagues to work with her and HELP Ranking...
